In 2009, Chen Lingling graduated from University of Connecticut (UConn) with a Ph.D. in Biomedicine from the School of Medicine and an MBA from the School of Business. In May 2019, she was awarded the Connecticut Stem Cell Seed Award research grant as an independent PI and worked at UConn Stem Cell Institute as a postdoctoral fellow, and became an assistant professor in May 2010. Since January 2011, she has served as a research fellow at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Currently, she serves on the editorial board of international journals such asTrends in Genetics,Genome Biology, andJournal of Biological Chemistry. In 2017, she was awarded International Research Scholar of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and Tan Jiazhen Life Science Innovation Award. In 2016, she won the CBIS Young Investigator Award and China Young Female Scientist Award.